“Experience the Germination Sensation”
The seasonally-changing sign outside City Folks Farm Shop, our local urban homesteading store, currently reads “Experience the Germination Sensation.” It captures the magic I feel when we see seedlings...
View ArticleSeason Extension 101
You can’t go anywhere this time of year in Central Ohio without hearing folks begging for the end of winter. Yesterday the temperature reached above forty degrees – for the first time in a very long...
View ArticleHoops Dreams
One of the things we’re most excited about experimenting with this spring and fall are tunnels – high and low. Tunnels are used to extend the growing and harvesting seasons. A tunnel over a garden bed...
View ArticleEverything’s Illuminated
It’s bitterly cold here in Central Ohio, again. But, I’m convinced this is the last of it. Snow and ice in the forecast this weekend, then I’m hoping we can keep temperatures in the 20s and 30s with...
View ArticleThe warming mat works!
Four days ago I planted some cucumber seeds, among others. I placed the tray on the DIY Warming Mat Dan and I made a few weeks ago. I peaked under their saran wrap blanket this morning and saw nothing....
View ArticleIt’s Spring in Our Basement
“To see things in a seed, that is genius.” Lao Tzu There’s snow on the ground, AGAIN. But being around these guys in the basement, you’d think it was spring.
View ArticleA Peek @ Our Indoor Seeding Operations
There are lots of great things you can grow in your vegetable garden from seed. This is the kind of gardening kids learn about in picturebooks – dig a hole in the ground, put in a seed, add water, and...
View ArticleDeath (and Rebirth) by Cold Frame Solar Oven
(This post is dedicated to our friends Tim Chavez and Suzanne Csejtey, local masters of solar power.) I guess I didn’t really check the forecast all that well yesterday morning because I decided to...
View ArticleFailure in the field
Like all bloggers, I tend to emphasize our successes in the field. (I did write about some ugly carrots at one point and I stand by my love of fruta feia.) Today I thought I would share a failure....
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Spring Challenges, Maybe
I started farming again this season rather than follow through on my planned sabbatical to give myself something to do that I could feel good about. To have something to work on. To have healthy food...
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Farmer Field Trip: A Garden of Hope
This is the first of a series of posts I’ll be sharing this season highlighting growers in central Ohio. If I’m lucky, I’ll venture beyond the borders of the Buckeye state once or twice before the...
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